Mount Baker (AE 34) - Naval Cruise Book

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EXPLOSIVE ORDANCE DISPOSAL Periodically when you pick up a newspaper or a magazine the fol- lowing may greet your eyesg TRUCK LOADED WITH AM- MUNITION OVERTURNS!!!, AMMIUNITION TRAIN EX- PLODES AND BURNS: IET FIGHTER CRASHES IN LAKE WITH ALL ORDANCE ABOARD: 500 LB BOMB FOUND DURING CON- STRUCTION IN DOWNTOWN LONDON: CIVIL WAR CAN- NON BALL FOUND BY AT- LANTA HOUSEWIFE: or EX- PLOSIVE DEVICE FOUND IN COLLEGE LAB!!! These and other headlines are just a few incidents which are pubIici:ed daily. Who handles these explosive devices? Who gets rid of them so that the area will be safe for people to work and live? This work is done by EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL personnel trained at the Naval School, Explosive Ord- nance Disposal, Indian llead, Maryland. The school provides training for specially selected offi- cers and enlisrted personnel of the Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine Corps in the recovery and disposal of all types of explosive devices. civilian or military, foreign or domestic. The list of these devices is almost endless. It includes explo- sive ordnance dating from the cannon ball and wooden key ofthe Civil War to the present day guided missile with its thermonuclear warhead. Graduates of EOD school are sent to all points of the world for duty with their respective military services where, as qualified Explo- sive Ordnance Technicians, they remain on call for 24 hours a day. QM' iff. ' The Navy's EOD teams have additional responsibility for dis- posal of all types of underwater ordnance. This requires additional training in underwater weapons and training as divers, qualified in SCUBA and Hard-hat using both air and mixed gas breathing mix- tures. The mission of the Navy EOD forces is to provide the Department of the Navy with the capability for surface and underwater detection, indentification, render safe, recov- ery, fieldflaboratory evalution and disposal of explosive ordnance which has been fired, dropped, launched, projected or placed in such a manner as to constitute a ha:ard to operations, installations, personnel or material. The mission includes render safe andfor dispos- al of any ordnance items which have inadvertently become hazard- ous by damage or deterioration when the disposal of such items is beyond the capabilities of person- nel normally assigned the responsi- Iiilitv of routine disposition. With this mission in mind, Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal is divided into two major operational commands: Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One CEODGU- RLUNEXJ and NAVMAG, West Loch Branch, Oahu, Hawaii and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group Two IEODGRUTWOD at Fort Story, Virginia: one research and development command fNa- val Explosive Ordnance Disoposal Technonogy Center at Indian Head, Marylandl: and one school command fNaval School, Explo- sive Ordnance Disposal, Indian Head, Marylandl. Additionally both EODGRUONE and EOD- GRUTWO have several subordi- nate commands such as Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit One and Two QEODMUONEI TWOD and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training and Evaluation Unit One and Two QEODTEUONEXTWOJ. CO- MEODGRUONE and CO- MEODGRUTWO coordinate all Naval Explosive Ordnance Dispos- al orperations within the Pacific and Atlantic Eleets respectively, and are the administrative com- manders of permanent deta- chments located throughout the world at selected military installa- tions. Operational command of these detachments is exercised by the lcoal installations. Like all Navy EOD detachments each consists of an officer and three enlisted personnel. Some common types of assign- ments that EOD detachments can expect are: disposal of retrograde ordnance that has been declared not suitable for use or reworking, ordnance evaluation projects, re- covery standbys for various missile and rocket launches, mine warfare exercises, responding to IED flm- provised Explosive Devicesl calls, various routine and emergency diving jobs, assisting the United States Secret Service and many other projects which are not just the recovery of bombs. EOD teams are assigned to all deployed AE's, AOE's, CV's, CVN's and other selected ships that carry large quantities of ordnance. These cruises for EOD personnel are only for the duration of the deployment, then the EOD team retums to its parent command for further as- signment and training.